As the light died down, Tatsumi looked above him, using whatever was present of his vision after the blinding light. As his vision came back to him, he made out wings in the sky. He couldn't make out any logical reason why the wings were staying there. There was no creature that they were latched to, they were just, transparently there, towering over the both of them. The wings were golden, having small lines of light express themselves through the gaps of transparency;raving over the two even more gargantuan then before.

Tatsumi stared at the wings as intently as he could before the enveloping light died down, allowing himself to stand up;having the wary attitude expressive as he did so. After his full vision returned, he gazed around the area, but got locked into one position.

He saw Akame, lying on the ground, motionless. She was wearing nothing but what she always did. The same black outfit, the skirt and tie. She didn't seem to be awake.

Tatsumi ran over to her, ignoring the wings that hovered above. Esdese simply watched from afar. He knelt down, putting his hand on her shoulder, his scabbard equipped on the left leg, scraping the stone earth once again. The sound of the scraping made birds fly out of a nearby tree;as he gently shook Akame. He couldn't believe that she was there, let alone looking healthy.

After a few seconds of shaking her, she opened her eyes slowly. As Tatsumi took his arm back and watched her, he started to talk.

"Akame, can you hear me?"

"Who is that?"

"Its Tatsumi. You're alive, Akame...I can't believe it! It actually worked!" he gleamed in happiness as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, helping her sit up.

"Tatsumi..." she muttered before her head fell onto his shoulder;only to quickly jerk back up as she fully awoke.

"W-Where are we? What happened?"

"We're at the Capital, you don't need to worry you're safe."

"Are we dead?"

"No, I brought you back from the dead."

As she tried to stand up, her right leg quickly succumbed to pressure;making her fall back down into a sitting position, directly in front of Tatsumi. He was trying to support her with opening his arms in case she fell in any other direction. Akame, now fully awake, scanned the area around her with her red eyes. She quickly noticed Esdese behind Tatsumi, and gritted her teeth before she spoke again.

"Why isn't she dead?"

"Akame, don't worry about-"

"Why isn't she dead, Tatsumi?!"

She pushed herself into Tatsumi's chest, hugging him. With her arms wrapped around his shoulders, she let her head rest on his left shoulder;staring at Esdese with dead, evil eyes. Her right arm fell from Tatsumi's back to the hilt of his sword as she pulled it out of the scabbard and threw it in Esdese' direction in the blink of an eye. Esdese, of course;blocked the sword and let it fall to the ground near the right of her.

Akame was now, finally in a standing position;allowing Tatsumi to get up himself;walking over to pick up the sword that she threw. As he picked it up, he could feel the tension between the two. Akame wanted her dead, and she wanted her dead now. The wings were no longer in the air, seeming to have dilapidated after the tension brewed.

The sunlight pierced the groups clothes, warming them up. Tatsumi walked into the pool of tension, and started to speak.

"Akame, she isn't the enemy...not anymore." he reached his right arm outwards;positioning his hand to signify her to stop, and directly afterward, put it down.

She tried to reach for her Teigu, only to realize it wasn't there. Had they disarmed her?

Tatsumi took a few steps back;causing the clink sound of his sword to trigger when it slid back into the red scabbard. He let himself fall backwards once he felt himself touch Esdese;letting his head touch her right shoulder as he did before;whispering in sheer cold.

"I think you should start to head back to Kurome and Wave, I'll catch up and tell her everything."

They were both whispering at this point.

"Tatsumi, I'm not leaving you with another women like this, its a stupid-"

"Don't worry about stupid things like that. I love you, and It would be better for all of us if you just listened to me, just this one time."

She sighed in annoyance as she lightly shoved him forwards. Shooting him an annoyed glance, she began walking into the opposite direction;kicking up dirt as she did. She didn't really enjoy the role reversal, but she would make him pay for it later.

Tatsumi and Akame stared each other down. Tatsumi, wearing a happy expression, while Akame, wore a disappointed and confused expression. The tension had resolved after Esdese was out of sight. Akame couldn't stand looking at her any longer;the last thing she wanted to see after waking up from that moment of death was an enemy. Her hand moved as she gripped her skirt in anger, wrinkling it as the sunlight hitting it distorted;making many shadows on the black outfit. She started walking towards him, ending up on his right side, staring at his outfit and weapons, and the duo began to walk down the stone path, riddled with the scent of wood;more then likely caused by the gargantuan amount of re-construction.

She blinked her eyes as she scanned him with her very red eyes. She was thinking.

"I'm...I'm so confused..."
Tatsumi looked over at her, more happy then ever before. He was just glad she was here with him.

"What's the last thing you remember?"

She put one hand on the back of her head, letting it roll over the straight, black hair that warmed her hand up as she did.

"I was fighting a few foot-soldiers directly after Leone and I split up...and then I heard screaming, so much screaming. Directly after that I started heading for where Leone went, and then, I saw a big flash of light. I felt pain almost instantly like somebody had hit me with their fist, and then I saw nothing but light once again...After that I saw you, and that, bitch."

Tatsumi looked at her with a sad expression on his face.'Leone will come back to us as soon as possible, I promise that.' he thought.

"Let me start from the beginning:

-When I woke up, I had just traded deaths with that big trump card, Shikoutazer, I think it was called. I was injured, and Incursio had been broken. I thought I was in some kind of afterlife, or something similar. I quickly realized that I was still outside of the battlefield that had just been destroyed. The Emperor was nowhere to be seen, neither was Leone, Najenda, or Wave. I walked and walked, until I found Esdese, who looked nearly dead, but she was just as active as you could expect. I started vocally;almost immediately;lashing out at her, asking her why she wasn't dead, and that she didn't deserve to be here;overall wondering why I was even alive. After that, I...I just didn't care. She became the new Empress, and overall, she wasn't that horrible. There weren't very many instances of corruption, but when I saw it, I had her and myself stop it. We won the battle there, and that's the truth. Nobody else has to die. It's been months since that happened and eventually, I was starting to think that this is the path that god chose for me, but then I came across a book. A book that your sword, Murasame, planted.

Akame's eyes widened as she wore a mildly confused expression.

"That reminds me, where is my Teigu?"

"Your Teigu is a girl named Murasame, and she is literally, human;well, sort of..."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I was in one of the popular libraries in the capital nearly a month ago, and I found a book. The book had entries of Teigu, but one caught my eye because it stated that the Teigu 'Trakunikiss" could bring other back from the dead...and I know, I was skeptical at first. What I didn't expect, was an embodiment of you, literally showing up with dead eyes and talking to me, telling me that she was Murasame."

"Could it be that the demon-"

"The trump card that you spoke of, it wasn't a demon exactly. Murasame is a girl who got caught and had her spirit trapped in the Teigu for an old Emperor. The poison side of it, or the taking over part, I'm not so sure about that...but she literally isn't a vicious man slaying demon, I don't think. Of course, she did say she had a Teigu of her own...so it could go both ways."

Akame stared at the ground in deep thought as she watched her feet slightly kick the now dirt road as she walked;Tatsumi's robe-like attire brushing her leg at intervals.

"Let me get this straight. You talked to my sword, managed to get a Teigu that brought me back to life, and now Esdese and you are what, saving us all?"
Tatsumi let out a small chuckle as he started to respond.

"Not exactly. Wave and Kurome are with us too. They aren't enemies anymore. Nobody is. The only enemies that we will make will be the ones standing in our way to get back our family."

He wore a determined expression and a broad smile.

"Where is Murasame now?" Akame asked.

Tatsumi shuffled his left arm and leaned his head back a bit;trying to remember where exactly she went.

"I actually have no idea, probably with Wave and Kurome."

Akame was surprised that he could say it so easily. The sheer thought of an embodiment of that sword scared her to some extent, and the way that Tatsumi described her, she didn't know if this evil women had helped him, or used him. In a twisted way, she was happy that she was with Tatsumi here, in the moment. He had somehow brought her back to life, and while she is very confused, she can't help but feel happy. She was with her best friend, and apparently he had the key to bringing loved ones back.

"What about the sword?"

Tatsumi reached his arm down onto his left leg, placing his hand on the hilt of the newly acquired sword;pulling it out as it made a small scraping sound. As he pulled it out, the sunlight gleamed off of it, revealing a red and purple tint, very similar to Akame's now vacant sword. He carefully brought it in front of her as they were walking;allowing her to take it hesitantly. It looked heavy, but she was surprised when it was as light as what she was used to. The sword itself was longer, and looked like it was the weapon of some fictional palace leader.

"So, how exactly did you get this, if Murasame is...human?"

"Murasame transferred some of her...energy...onto it, and she made it what it is. I know all of this sounds like complete bogus and fairy tales...trust me, I'm still wearing your face at the moment. These past few weeks have been so abrupt-"

Tatsumi halted in his sentence as they both stopped in the pathway before them. A group of men stood in their way, all wearing armor. The sunlight shined on the armor as two men on each side of the middle man took a fighting stance. Akame panned at the design, gripping the poisonous Teigu in her hand once again. This armor resembled the same logo of a clan they wish they didn't have to remember.

The Path Of Peace;except, their logo seemed, crooked;like a fan group tried to replicate it.

"Who are you, and what do you want from us?" Tatsumi yelled as he took the sword from Akame, getting in front of her. Akame didn't seem to like this at all.

"We are The Blockade! We are a shadow of what The Path Of Peace once was! -And...we have come for the wing you so chose to find without us. You either give it over, or you suffer death."

Tatsumi felt adrenaline rushing through him. His hands started shaking as he gripped the sword in his hand;preparing for one of them to attack. After a few moments of silence and wary tension, the soldier in the middle made a simple statement.

"Attack!"

The soldiers in their Grey armor charged forward toward Tatsumi; attempting to stab him with a weirdly designed and oversized spear.

Tatsumi dashed left as the spear misses him completely. Akame dived to the left as well, managing to trip one of the running soldiers as they charged forward.

Tatsumi quickly regained his composure and decided to test out a new trick her learned on his way here.

He let the poisonous sword shift in his hand, and directly when the hilt reached its opposite position, he threw it at the soldiers that Akame was avoiding. If it had worked out like he practiced, the effect that Murasame gave it should work; and it did.

The sword was thrown horizontally at the soldiers, causing a red glow to emit under the blade, cutting through the soldiers and their armor;immediately killing them. Blood was visible, clotting in the sunlight as it ran down their armor.

There were three other members, donning the same armor with the same broken logo, staring intently at Tatsumi.

Akame quickly ran to Tatsumi's side, mentally cursing him for not letting her use something;she wasn't useless;she was far from useless. She wore a mildly surprised expression when she heard the familiar sound of tree twigs breaking;as if somebody was stepping on them in front of her.

The sword that Tatsumi threw;his sword;had come back to him like a child's boomerang;allowing him to easily catch the hilt in his palm.

"Nobody else has to die. Just surrender and go your separate way!" Tatsumi yelled intently.

The soldiers didn't listen.

All three of them started to run forward, charging head on;seeming to prepare for him to throw the sword again;screaming almost consistently.

Tatsumi quickly gripped the hilt of Incursio, and equipped it in the left hand, along with Murasame. The two swords gleamed in sunlight as his green eyes quickly faded away;leaving a white void in their presence.

The first soldier that tried to swing the same type of spear at him missed, and fumbled, allowing Tatsumi to quickly punt him out of the way, sending him flying towards a nearby tree. Another tried grabbing him, only to fall victim to Incursio;feeling the blade pierce his armor;blood flowing down the blade as it dripped onto the ground.

Akame stood back, watching in mild amazement. 'He has no expression, he isn't even grunting.' her mental words echoed throughout her ears.

As two soldiers lye dead;one on the end of Incursio's blade, and the other impaled by a tree branch, the final soldier fell onto his knees in front of Tatsumi, staring at the ground with a horrified expression. The soldier looked up as he heard the footsteps of his group's murderer slowly approach him.

Tatsumi held both swords in hand, one glowing red, the other glowing gold;staring into the soldier's eyes with a blank expression. His white eyes made the man even more horrified as he started to flail on the ground, backing up from Tatsumi;only causing him to walk further toward him.

"I want you to turn around, and get the hell out of my sight."

The soldier quickly agreed and got up without any hesitation, kicking dirt off the ground in succession. The armor he wore made sounds as he quickly ran down the pathway his group once blocked;stopping after he heard Tatsumi speak;not looking behind him.

"Hey! I want you to think about how you approach somebody like me again, you hear? Death hurts. So don't threaten others with it. You will never know when it's your last day on earth, you got it?"

"Y-Yes!" the man let out a childish response as he ran even faster down the pathway.

Tatsumi's eyes returned to normal as he walked towards Akame, happily giving her back the sword.

"Can you tell me Everything that has happened, please?" Akame smiled as she took the sword and scabbard from him.

"Yeah, but let's go to an Inn first. Its starting to get dark."

"Yeah, I guess it is. You have a lot to tell me-"

"I do."

He equipped Incursio directly onto his back, where it clicked in sufficiently. Sweat was dripping off of his forehead;only intensifying when he began walking with Akame again.

The two walked down the pathway, now ridden of the small group that blocked their way.

'That can't be okay' - Akame kept her thoughts to herself as they continued on.

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